Dec 16, Grades. They were submitted electronically to the registrar yesterday.
Nov 24, True Whispers: The Story of the Navajo Code Talkers. This one hour special airs on PBS tonight at 9:30pm and again at 1:00am November 29.
Nov 19, History of AI Slides. A link to Prof. Rich's slides appears near the bottom of this page.
Oct 26, US Declaration of Independence. An original copy will be on display at the LBJ Library October 24 - November 9.
Oct 20, Pentium with Tubes. Hugo Garcia offers the following rough estimate of the surface area of a Pentium processor built from vacuum tubes. For some perspective, 1 sq mi = 27,878,400 sq ft. The two left boards in this photo show ENIAC and EDVAC tubes.
Oct 14, Prof. Cline's Presentation. His class presentation on a history of numerical methods ideas and his example of computing π are available at Alan Kaylor Cline.
Oct 10, Chicago Style Bibliographic Reference Formats Online. Vincent Mo provides us with the following link,
(Colorado State University, http://writing.colostate.edu/references/sources/chicago/index.cfm, 2003 October 10)However, beware! Chicago style has two different formats for references, one for references in notes (footnotes or endnotes) and another for references in bibliographies. You are supposed to be using the format for notes, and the formats given in this online link are for bibliographies. However, the content of the two formats is the same.
Sep 27, Ceruzzi's Reckoners Online.
Paul E. Ceruzzi, Reckoners, the Prehistory of the Digital Computer, from Relays to the Stored Program Concept, 1935-1945 (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1983). Also available online at http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/DocumentArchive/Documents/Books/Reckoners/Reckoners.html (Computer History Museum, accessed 2003 Sep 27).
Sep 11, Citations for Graphics. If you use graphics in your reports, cite their sources.
Sep 8, Report Word Limit and Submission Procedure Changes. I have increased the upper bound on the word limit from 110% to 200%. I also want you to turn in a paper copy of your report in class. See Reports.
Sep 3, First Report. Don't forget the header lines. See "Report Structure" in the "Reports" section.
Aug 28, First Class, Failure Prevention! Based on the class last fall, many students do not have an adequate working knowledge of the material about citations and references that will be covered in the first class. Without it you run a serious risk of failing this course because of plagiarism. -- dg 2003 Aug 22
Preliminary Information. The information here may change up through the first day of class on August 28. However, I will not increase the total amount of writing required. This course will be the new, improved version of the one taught in the fall semester of 2002. -- dg 2003 Jul 8
Night Owl Warning! I am happy to answer email questions, but be advised. I am not the night owl that some of you are. My prime working hours are on the other side of the clock, early in the morning. So time your email accordingly. -- dg 2002 Oct 10
